The 2025 Dean’s Awards are presented at a ceremony at The Hope Club on April 16, 2025. Congratulations to all the winners.
Office of the Dean
2025 Dean’s Awards
2025 Dean’s Awards for Faculty and Staff Excellence, and Public Health Research Day Awards.
2025 Dean’s Awards
2025 Dean’s Awards for Faculty and Staff Excellence, and Public Health Research Day Awards.
Faculty and Staff Awards
Awards for Faculty Excellence
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4
Jaclyn White Hughto, Excellence in Mentoring
2
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4
Shilo McBurney, Excellence in Classroom Teaching
3
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4
Arman Oganisian, Excellence in Research Collaboration
4
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4
Emily Gadbois, Excellence in Community Engagement
Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring
- Jaclyn White Hughto, Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Dean’s Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching
- Shilo McBurney, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research Collaboration
- Arman Oganisian, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
Dean’s Award for Excellence in Community Engagement
- Emily Gadbois, Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice
Dean’s Community Partner Award
- Blackburn Middle School
Awards for Staff Excellence
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2
Kimberly Bernard and Suzanne Araujo, Excellence in Leadership
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2
Emily Fulginiti, Excellence in Innovation
Dean’s Award for Excellence in Leadership
- Suzanne Araujo, Director of Finance and Administration, Department of Biostatistics
- Kimberly Bernard, Senior Research Scientist, Center for Gerontology & Healthcare Research
Dean’s Award for Excellence in Innovation
- Emily Fulginiti, Grants and Financial Specialist, Health Services, Policy & Practice Grants and Research Team
Public Health Research Day Awards
Top Graduate & Postgraduate Posters
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7
Jennifer Scodes, Ph.D. Biostatistics
2
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7
Leah Shaw, Ph.D. Epidemiology
3
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7
Brooke Ury, MPH
4
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7
Sirui Zhang, MPH
5
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7
Matthew Campos, MPH
6
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7
Lauren Ranney, Online MPH
7
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7
Maia Lindner-Liaw, ScM Biostatistics
- Jennifer Scodes Ph.D. Biostatistics
"Item-response theory to adjust proxy-responses when evaluating treatment effects in quality-of-life outcomes: an application to Parkinson’s disease" - Leah Shaw Ph.D. Epidemiology
"Community acceptability of the first state-authorized overdose prevention center in the United States" - Brooke Ury MPH
"Climate Drivers of Morbidity Seasonality in Mexico" - Sirui Zhang MPH
"Hypertension Treatment, Blood Pressure, and Deprescribing Among U.S. Nursing Home Residents With and Without Dementia, 2018-2022" - Matthew Campos MPH
"Comparing Healthcare Utilization Among Hispanic Medicare Beneficiaries with Complex Chronic Conditions: A Comparison of Puerto Rico and Florida" - Makayla Hickmon MPH
"A qualitative analysis of the participants’ experiences with Mobile Solutions for Women's and Children's Health: Neonate (MWACh NEO)" - Lauren Ranney Online MPH
"Optimizing Active Placebo Dose for MDMA randomized controlled trials for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder" - Maia Lindner-Liaw ScM Biostatistics
"Effect of Meals on Wheels Delivery Model on Nursing Home and Inpatient Usage: A Power Prior Approach for Historically Augmented Pilot Trial Data"
Top Undergraduate Posters
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2
Soniya Chawla
2
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2
Angelica Mroczek
- Soniya Chawla
"Over-The-Counter Naloxone Availability Within Rhode Island Retail Pharmacies" - Angelica Mroczek
"Leveraging the United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) Data Elements for Enhanced Health Risk Assessment: An Illustrative Case Study on Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease (ASCVD)"